Two Documentaries by David Weissman and Bill Weber
2 Episodes
Vivid, stirring portraits of San Francisco’s gay life and psychedelic counterculture, these documentaries from director David Weissman—made in collaboration with Bill Weber—tell essential stories of queer community, creativity, and resilience. A joyous celebration of the eponymous gender-bending burlesque collective who took the city by storm in the late 1960s and early ’70s, THE COCKETTES brings a colorful chapter of hippy history to life in all its anarchic glory. In WE WERE HERE, Weissman movingly recounts the coming of AIDS to San Francisco in the 1980s, capturing not only the fear and devastation of the era but also the inspiring courage and compassion of those who came together to fight for survival.
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1:39:21Episode 1The Cockettes
Episode 1
Directed by David Weissman and Bill Weber • 2002 • United States
Even amid the proudly nonconformist counterculture of psychedelic San Francisco in the late 1960s and early ’70s, the gender-bending burlesque performance art provocateurs The Cockettes stood out for their outrageous, glitter-bedec...
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1:29:59Episode 2We Were Here
Episode 2
Directed by David Weissman • 2011 • United States
One of the most moving and cathartic films made yet about the AIDS crisis, David Weissman’s WE WERE HERE recounts the impact that the so-called “gay plague” had upon San Francisco’s vibrant queer community in the early 1980s. Through the intimate...